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Seventh  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  was  appointed,  con- 
sisting of  the  President  and  acting  Secretary  of  the  Congress,  Pro- 
fessors Remington,  of  Philadelphia,  Oldberg,  of  Chicago,  and  Messrs. 
Carteighe,  of  London,  Ramlot,  of  Brussels,  and  Professor  A.  B.  Pres- 
cott,  of  Michigan.  This  committee  was  authorized  in  due  time  to 
provide  for  the  assembling  of  the  next  Congress  in  such  a  manner 
as  they  might  deem  appropriate,  and  to  represent  the  Seventh  Con- 
gress until  its  successor  shall  have  been  convened. 
EIGHTH  CONGRESS  IN  BRUSSELS,    1 897. 
Upon  the  invitation  of  the  Belgian  General  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation the  Eighth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  met  for  a 
second  time  in  Brussels  in  August,  1897.  The  meetings  were  well 
attended,  mostly  by  Belgian  pharmacists.  The  number  of  foreign 
delegates  and  visitors  was  a  comparatively  small  one.  They  came 
from  France,  Holland,  Great  Britain,  Italy,  Sweden,  Bulgaria, 
Mexico,  Russia  and  the  United  States  (Professor  Remington,  Phila- 
delphia, Mr.  Meyer,  New  Orleans).  No  pharmaceutical  societies 
from  Germany,  Austria,  Russia,  Switzerland,  Great  Britain,  etc., 
were  represented  by  delegates. 
Like  the  first  Congress  in  Brussels,  in  1885,  this  one  was  also 
patronized  by  the  Government  and  the  Secretary  ot  Public  Health 
welcomed  the  Congress  at  its  opening  session  in  a  brief  address. 
Professor  Ranwez  of  the  University  of  Louvain,  acted  as  president 
and  Mr.  Duyck,  of  Brussels,  as  general  secretary. 
The  deliberations  were  conducted  in  the  French  language  and  in 
these  six  sections: 
(1)  Legislation  and  professional  interests;  (2)  Practical  pharmacy, 
chemistry,  pharmacognosy  ;  (3)  Examination  of  food  ;  (4)  Hygiene  ; 
(5)  Bacteriology;  (6)  Toxicology. 
As  main  questions  for  deliberation  were  proposed  in  the  pro- 
gramme the  following  ones: 
(1)  Is  it  desirable  in  consideration  of  the  present  state  of  knowledge  to 
establish  a  definite  standard  of  strength  in  active  constituents  of  drugs  and  the 
pharmaceutical  preparations  made  therefrom  ? 
(2)  Is  it  necessary  to  establish  uniform  methods  for  the  quantitative  estima- 
tion of  the  active  principles  of  drugs  and  preparations  made  therefrom  ? 
(3)  In  what  way  is  the  practice  of  pharmacy  to  be  best  regulated  in  the 
interest  and  for  the  safety  of  the  public  ? 
(4)  How  can  the  manufacture  and  trade  in  the  newer  remedies  be  best  regu- 
